Photocopying – Contact printing – Light boxes
Patent
1994-11-01
1996-05-07
Royer, William J.
Photocopying
Contact printing
Light boxes
355313, G03G 2100
Patent
active
055151531
ABSTRACT:
An image-forming apparatus includes a platen on which an original having an original image is placed, an automatic-document feeder, arranged on the platen, for transporting the original from an original receiving portion onto the platen and for discharging the original from the platen, an exposure lamp for exposing the platen to form a reflected light. The reflected light includes a light reflected by the original when the original is on the platen. Further, the image-forming apparatus includes an image-forming portion for forming a copy image on an image-bearing member on the basis of the reflected light. The automatic-document feeder includes a mechanism for picking up the original placed on the original receiving portion; a document-transporting belt for transporting the original picked up by the mechanism by contacting an opposite surface of the original which does not face the platen so as to position the original on the platen; a control system for determining that the original picked up has an image on the opposite surface; and a driving mechanism for driving the document-transporting belt to transport the original so that a first specific area and a second specific area are formed in the document-transporting belt, the first specific area contacting the opposite surface when the control system determines that the original has an image on the opposite surface, the second specific area contacting the opposite surface when the original does not have an image on the opposite surface.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5038182 (1991-08-01), Tanimoto
patent: 5347351 (1994-09-01), Morita et al.
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Royer William J.
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